ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In the closing paragraph of Biographia. Coleridge invokes the example of Hooker, 'the judicious author' who 'though he wrote for men of learning in a learned age, saw nevertheless reason to anticipate and guard against "complaints of obscurity" as often as he was about to trace his subject "to the highest well-spring and fountain". Imagination here is the extrapolation of the known, in the interests of admiration. Here, and with Philostratus, Plotinus, and Muratori below, the author have used the translation by Mr E. F. Carritt in his very convenient and instructive collection, Philosophies of Beauty. Muratori has other passages, however, which do point forward to parts of Coleridge's doctrine. He has a reference to images formed by the imagination when, excited by some passion, it unites two simple and natural images and gives them a shape and nature different from the representation of the senses.
